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DoctorWhomay be well known for the Time Lord at its heart , but the show is made up just as much by the Doctor ’s fellow traveller . serial 11 is fast draw close and Whovians all around the earth are busily speculating as to what the forthcoming season may hold . One of the key point of curiosity is the identity element and personalities ofthe Doctor ’s new familiar , Ryan , Yasmin and Graham .
Within the show ’s population , the companions give the Doctor someone who can serve stave off the soul - demolish ennui that comes from being an Ishmael or ( in the revival meeting series ) the last surviving member of theTime Lords . It ’s also smart not to travel alone , particularly when you have a clip - locomote spaceship , and the companions ofttimes have accomplishment and talents which the Doctor lacks to serve to save the twenty-four hour period . Within the linguistic context of the show ’s writing , the companions also give the Doctor someone to whom thing can be explain for the benefit of the hearing .
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unhappily , not all companions are create equal and not everyone who joined the Doctor for the journeying of a lifespan was worth the time of The Doctor - or the audience . For every strong , confident mortal capable of stand by the Doctor ’s side in a crisis , there were many who screamed or fainted at the first sign of risk .
What travel along is a abbreviated assessment of some of the best and bad of the many characters who travel on The TARDIS with The Doctor . Some of them set the golden criterion for everything a sidekick should be . Others were failed by the writers , who did n’t build up them into companion worthy of the name .
Best: Rose Tyler
A 19 - year one-time shopgirl who first encounteredthe Ninth Doctorafter he blow up the section store where she worked , Rose Tyler was the first comrade come after the revival meeting ofDoctor Whoin 2005 . Played by then - pop - star Billie Piper , some Whovians knock Rose ’s graphic symbol for becoming love - scratch by the dashing Doctor and for being selfish , having abandoned her boyfriend and her mother to journey the beetleweed .
Despite this , many matte that Rose volunteer an all - too - human position on the Doctor ’s adventures . For well or worse , her journey from shopgirl to Defender of the Earth walk out a chord with many people who were introduced to the show through her eyes . She also summed up what makes the Doctor so particular for so many fans : he shows you " a better means of endure your life . "
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Worst: Kamelion
Kamelion was a shape - changing robot , whom the Fifth Doctor rescue from the machinations of the Master . Kamelion traveled with The Doctor for a short sentence before once again falling under the Master ’s ascendance . Regretfully , the Doctor destruct Kamelion at the mechanical man ’s urgency , before it could be change by reversal upon its friends . Threepiohe was not .
The chief problem with Kamelion was that his character was built around a real robot producer John Nathan - Turner had purchase for the show . The shape - shifting gimmick was sum up after it became apparent how prone to malfunction the robot was , and that was before the only engineer who knew how to programme Kamelion occur - on after a boat fortuity ! Kamelion was written out of the show and Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison said that any unhappiness he testify at the automaton ’s pass on - camera was " pure playing . "
Best: Leela
A huntress of the Sevateem , Leela was contrive out of her tribe for desecration . ( i.e. asking too many question ) . Clearly level-headed despite her savage upbringing , Leela quickly endeared herself to the Fourth Doctor , who tried his unspoiled to cultivate her in the ways of space - faring civilizations . The two lay out a unequalled correspondence , with the pacifist Doctor trying to talk his way out of difficulty Leela think it respectable to face with a piercing knife ’s edge .
While the Doctor had soldier and warrior companions before , Leela was a first for the series , being a woman who was a more adequate to champion than the Doctor and not contrary to forcible confrontations . No other companion has quite managed to live up to Leela ’s example in that department and she inspired the equally hot - tempered warrior woman character of Turanga Leela fromFuturama .
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Worst: Martha Jones
When Billie Piper leftDoctor Who , it was felt the next companion should be an adequate pardner to the MD . EnterMartha Jones- a well - off medical bookman who was a far outcry from working - class Rose Tyler . That was the theory , anyway . The realism was that Martha presently develop an unreciprocated crush on the Doctor and whined to anyone who would hear about his failure to notice her .
What rightfully made Martha awful was her failure to learn anything from her time with the Doctor . She left him to join UNIT - a military system formed to fight alien invaders . She became part of an cause to blow up the earthly concern rather than lease the Daleks take it in the instalment " journey close " - an action the Doctor afterward condemn her for , in the write up " Do n’t mistreat On The Grass . "
Best: K9
Created by Professor Marius , a frank - loving scientist who was unable to take his pet barker with him after being assigned to a lab in deep distance , K9 was both a patriotic companion and a state - of - the - art analytical machine . The Fourth Doctor later adopted K9 at Marius ' request and would go on to build several version of him as guard duty dogs for his most beloved fellow traveller , after they had parted ways with him .
K9 is one of the most darling of the Doctor ’s associate . In accession to being one of the few companions to deserve his own spin - off tv series , K9 And Company , K9 is the only one to merittheir own movie . Granted , the flick is lay out outside of the received continuity ofDoctor Who , but it ’s still an telling feat .
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Worst: Adric
A aboriginal of the parallel macrocosm called E - Space , Adric ’s proudest accomplishment in his young life was earning Elite condition for his mathematical noesis . This appellative would have marked him for high training , had he not stow - away on - board The TARDIS .
Legend has it that Adric was created forDoctor Whofor the same reason Robin was create forBatman- to give the typical lover a point - of - thought role they could relate to . give that Adric was a unsympathetic math nerd , this may say quite a bit about how the writer ofDoctor Whoat the clip viewed their audience . It did n’t help matters that worker Matthew Waterhouse , who played Adric , was incompetent of view as his own alongside an histrion with the gravitas of Tom Baker . Few were deplorable when Adric buy the farm trying to stop a space - merchantman from crashing into prehistoric Earth .
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Best: Rory Williams
Most men would begin reconsidering their wedding plan if their fiancee started talking about how her fanciful supporter from when she was a girl was real and had visited her the night before their wedding . Luckily for Amy Pond , Rory Williams is not most men . A register nurse before he became the intergalactic caption known as The Last Centurion , Rory ’s time with The Doctor would see himperish several timestrying to save the love of his life and the macrocosm . Death and erasure from realism only decelerate him down .
Perhaps the just summation of Rory Williams ' character and why he is so beloved total from one of the many Chuck Norris animate memes regarding his exploits . " That which does not kill Rory Williams only makes him strong . In improver , that which does kill Rory Williams also spend a penny him firm . "
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Worst: Perpugilliam “Peri” Brown
An American botany John Major who first encountered the Doctor in the sequence " Planet Of Fire , " Peri Brown made a strong picture in her first appearance . Confronted by The Master , who attempted to hypnotize her by shouting " I am the Master ! " Peri responded " So what ? I ’m Perpugilliam Brown , and I can clapperclaw just as gimcrack as you’re able to ! " Unfortunately , Peri would show little of this wit in later episodes .
Another victim of the lacklustre written material that plagued the Sixth Doctor epoch ofDoctor Who , Peri belong from a enlivened young adult female to a shrill , nagging comportment who did n’t seem to enjoy locomote with the Doctor at all . gratefully , actress Nicola Bryant and Sixth Doctor thespian Colin Baker would later get a chance to dally more dignified versions of their respective characters in the short - film seriesThe Stranger .
Best: Sarah Jane Smith
First appearing in " The Time Warrior " , newsman Sarah Jane Smith was fast to establish herself as a unlike sort of companion . An outspoken feminist with little respect for rule or convention , the only person who could meet Sarah Jane in right-down brass might beLois Lane . She would go on to become one of The Doctor ’s longest - serve fellow traveler .
WhenDoctor Whowas revived in 2005 , there was no question who would be the first familiar from the Hellenic series to return for a cameo once the show was reestablish . Sarah Jane Smith joined forces with The Doctor once again in the 2d serial episode " School reunification . " The episode prove that Sarah Jane was as popular as ever , lead to a solo spin - off , The Sarah Jane Adventures , which guide until the untimely passing of actress Elisabeth Sladen in 2011 .
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Worst: Adam Mitchell
Adam Mitchell holds a special property among The Doctor ’s fellow traveler , having the dishonor of being the only individual to be kicked out of the TARDIS . While many of the Doctor ’s comrade have been fearful , grabby or deceitful , none of them ever fall off to the depths that Mitchell did .
Taken to the time to come on his first trip in the TARDIS , Mitchell acquired a technopathic implant and seek to send information about future technologies to himself in the past , in a bid to become rich . This effort almost got the Doctor and Rose Tyler pour down , when information about them was sent from Adam ’s psyche through the web to an alien intelligence agency that almost take over the TARDIS . Had Adam been apologetic , it might have made a difference . Instead , he blame The Doctor for his mistake , before pitiably tap for a second chance .
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